Earlie Hubnall, Jr. opens the door to his spacious Third Ward home and guides me out back and upstairs to his photography ...

Elizabeth Catlett, Links Together, 1996. Photo courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell. Another artist who captured the Black experience is the legendary sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012).

A tiny album at the Smithsonian's African American History museum shows photos of black Civil War soldiers. The images inspired portraits on exhibit at Fort Negley in Nashville.

Black-and-white versus color photography in the 1960s Color photographs of the civil rights movement have surfaced in recent years, but photographers and experts agree that they are rare.

It depicted an African American man in a tuxedo, elegantly posed before the camera. West purchased it for $10.70. “Including tax,” he said with a laugh in a phone interview.

Some photos’ subjects are familiar, she says, such as Martin Luther King Jr. But newer leaders are also featured, including Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto.

At a time when the work of leading Black suffragists was often unwelcome, Black women crafted and mobilized images that became critical documents for insisting on racial equity and agency. An ...